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|[[pkgdb:accrete|Accrete]] || Accrete is a physical simulation of solar system planet formation. This simulation works by modelling a dust cloud around a Sun-like star, injecting a series of masses which collect dust, and form planets by accretion.
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|[[pkgdb:celestia|Celestia]] ||Free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
|[[pkgdb:celestia|Celestia]] ||Free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
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|[[pkgdb:stellarium|Stellarium]] ||Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors.
|[[pkgdb:stellarium|Stellarium]] ||Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors.
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|[[pkgdb:redmode|Redmode]] ||Switch to and from night red mode.
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|[[pkgdb:planets|Planets]] ||Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems.
|[[pkgdb:planets|Planets]] ||Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems.
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|[[pkgdb:openuniverse|openuniverse]] ||OpenUniverse is a solar system simulation.
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|[[pkgdb:mars-sim|mars-sim]] || The Mars Simulation Project is a free software Java project to create a simulation of future human settlement of Mars.
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|[[pkgdb:orsa|orsa]] ||ORSA is an interactive tool for scientific grade Celestial Mechanics computations. Asteroids, comets, artificial satellites, Solar and extra-Solar planetary systems can be accurately reproduced, simulated, and analyzed.
|[[pkgdb:orsa|orsa]] ||ORSA is an interactive tool for scientific grade Celestial Mechanics computations. Asteroids, comets, artificial satellites, Solar and extra-Solar planetary systems can be accurately reproduced, simulated, and analyzed.
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|[[pkgdb:justmoon|Just Moon]] ||Just Moon: a moon viewer.
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|[[pkgdb:ccdciel|ccdciel]]  || A free CCD capture software intended for the amateur astronomer.
|[[pkgdb:ccdciel|ccdciel]]  || A free CCD capture software intended for the amateur astronomer.
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|[[pkgdb:ds9|ds9]]  || Astronomical Data Visualization Application.
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|[[pkgdb:gcx|gcx]] ||Data-reduction tool for CCD photomet.
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|[[pkgdb:munipack|MuniPack]] ||MuniPack is a CCD photometry package developed by Filip Hroch under and for Linux.
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|[[pkgdb:opticalraytracer|opticalraytracer]] ||Utility that analyzes systems of lenses.
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|[[pkgdb:saoimage|SAOimage]] ||SAOimage (pronounced S-A-0-image) is a utility for displaying astronomical images in the X11 window environment.
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|[[pkgdb:siril|Siril]] ||Siril is an astronomical image processing software for Linux.
|[[pkgdb:siril|Siril]] ||Siril is an astronomical image processing software for Linux.
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|[[pkgdb:gpredict|gpredict]] ||Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application.
|[[pkgdb:gpredict|gpredict]] ||Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application.
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|[[pkgdb:xvarstar|xvarstar]] ||XVarStar is a astronomical program written for variable star observers, and is used for searching GCVS catalogue.
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|[[pkgdb:corrida|corrida]] || Meteorites archiver.
|[[pkgdb:corrida|corrida]] || Meteorites archiver.
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|[[pkgdb:kdeedu|KStars]] ||The display includes 130,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.
|[[pkgdb:kdeedu|KStars]] ||The display includes 130,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.
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|[[pkgdb:spacechart|spacechart]] ||A 3D star-mapping program.
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|[[pkgdb:spacechart|messigy]] ||Messiggy is a database of celestial objects, as cataloged by the French astronomer Charles Messier in the mid-18th century.
|[[pkgdb:spacechart|messigy]] ||Messiggy is a database of celestial objects, as cataloged by the French astronomer Charles Messier in the mid-18th century.
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|[[pkgdb:nightfall|Nightfall]] ||Nightfall is an astronomy application for fun, education, and science. It can produce animated views of eclipsing binary stars, calculate synthetic lightcurves and radial velocity curves, and eventually determine the best-fit model for a given set of observational data of an eclipsing binary star system
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|[[pkgdb:rmap|Rmap]] ||Rmap is a package that will allow you to generate images of the earth from a distance or fairly zoomed.
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|[[pkgdb:sextractor|Sextractor]] ||SExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image.
|[[pkgdb:sextractor|Sextractor]] ||SExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image.
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|[[pkgdb:starplot|StarPlot]] ||StarPlot is a program for Unix that allows you to view charts of the relative 3-dimensional positions of stars in space.
|[[pkgdb:starplot|StarPlot]] ||StarPlot is a program for Unix that allows you to view charts of the relative 3-dimensional positions of stars in space.
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|[[pkgdb:xstar|xstar]] ||N-body simulator
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|[[pkgdb:jday|jday]] || A simple command to convert calendar dates to julian dates. Quite useful in timing situations where you need elapsed time between dates.
|[[pkgdb:jday|jday]] || A simple command to convert calendar dates to julian dates. Quite useful in timing situations where you need elapsed time between dates.
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|[[pkgdb:cloudy|Cloudy]] ||Spectral synthesis code to simulate conditions in interstellar matter.
|[[pkgdb:cloudy|Cloudy]] ||Spectral synthesis code to simulate conditions in interstellar matter.
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|[[pkgdb:ggobi|GGobi]] ||GGobi is a data visualization system for viewing high-dimensional data.
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|[[pkgdb:gnuradio|GNURadio]] ||Gnuradio is a software defined radio framework.
|[[pkgdb:gnuradio|GNURadio]] ||Gnuradio is a software defined radio framework.
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|[[pkgdb:extrema|extrema]] ||Extrema is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool that enables researchers to quickly distill their large, complex data sets into meaningful information.
|[[pkgdb:extrema|extrema]] ||Extrema is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool that enables researchers to quickly distill their large, complex data sets into meaningful information.
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|[[pkgdb:starlab|starlab]] ||A package for simulating the evolution of dense stellar systems
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| [[pkgdb:funtools|funtools]] || Minimal FITS library and utilities
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| [[pkgdb:psfex|psfex]] ||  Model the Point Spread Function from FITS images
| [[pkgdb:psfex|psfex]] ||  Model the Point Spread Function from FITS images
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| [[pkgdb:pp3|pp3]] || Creation of sky charts in Postscript or PDF format
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| [[pkgdb:wcslib|wcslib]] || An implementation of the FITS World Coordinate System standard  
| [[pkgdb:wcslib|wcslib]] || An implementation of the FITS World Coordinate System standard  
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|[[pkgdb:nexcontrol|nexcontrol]] ||Software to control your Celestron NexStar Telescope
|[[pkgdb:nexcontrol|nexcontrol]] ||Software to control your Celestron NexStar Telescope
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|[[pkgdb:nightview|nightview]] ||NightView is a software package to control of the SBIG's CCD cameras under Linux. It provides full iterative or batch control of a camera and a filter wheel. It is developed on Monte Boo observatory as a main control software of our camera and telescope. The develop is under GPL so a source code is open for possible changes.
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|[[pkgdb:astronomy-bookmarks|astronomy-bookmarks]] ||Fedora astronomy bookmarks.
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|[[pkgdb:python-numdisplay|python-numdisplay]] ||Visualize numpy array objects in ds9.
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|[[pkgdb:virtualplanet|Virtual Planet Atlas]] ||An atlas to display planet formations for Mars, Mercury and Venus.
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[[Category:Astronomy SIG|Packages]]
[[Category:Astronomy SIG|Packages]]
[[Category:Packages|Astronomy]]
[[Category:Packages|Astronomy]]

Revision as of 07:05, 1 September 2021

Fedora Astronomy Packages

List of Astronomy packages that are already in Fedora. You can also check proposed packages and refused packages .


Simulators

Celestia Free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
Stellarium Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors.
Planets Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems.
orsa ORSA is an interactive tool for scientific grade Celestial Mechanics computations. Asteroids, comets, artificial satellites, Solar and extra-Solar planetary systems can be accurately reproduced, simulated, and analyzed.

Image processing

ccdciel A free CCD capture software intended for the amateur astronomer.
Siril Siril is an astronomical image processing software for Linux.
swarp SWarp is a program that resamples and co-adds together FITS images using any arbitrary astrometric projection defined in the WCS standard.
wcstools Software utilities to display and manipulate the WCS of a FITS image.

Observing

gpredict Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application.
corrida Meteorites archiver.

Star charts

KStars The display includes 130,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.
messigy Messiggy is a database of celestial objects, as cataloged by the French astronomer Charles Messier in the mid-18th century.
Cartes du Ciel/SkyChart A software to draw chart of the night sky for the amateur astronomer from a bunch of stars and nebulae catalogs.

Data processing

Sextractor SExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image.
StarPlot StarPlot is a program for Unix that allows you to view charts of the relative 3-dimensional positions of stars in space.
jday A simple command to convert calendar dates to julian dates. Quite useful in timing situations where you need elapsed time between dates.
Cloudy Spectral synthesis code to simulate conditions in interstellar matter.
GNURadio Gnuradio is a software defined radio framework.
GRC The GNU Radio Companion is a preliminary graphical user interface which allows GNU Radio components to be put together graphically.
boinc-client A platform for distributed computing.
cpl ESO library for automated astronomical data-reduction
extrema Extrema is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool that enables researchers to quickly distill their large, complex data sets into meaningful information.
psfex Model the Point Spread Function from FITS images
wcslib An implementation of the FITS World Coordinate System standard
radial A simple program for calculating radial velocities of stars in a binary system

Telescope control

indi Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface
indistarter A GUI for controlling local and remote INDI servers
nexcontrol Software to control your Celestron NexStar Telescope

Others

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